Hip pain
The body's main weight-bearing joint, and one that can affect everything from your feet to your fingertips. Assessment works out whether the hip is the cause of the pain or just where you feel it.
The hip is a ball-and-socket joint: the ball at the top of the thigh bone sits in a cup on the pelvis, and the surfaces are lined with cartilage that cushions the bones when you put weight through the joint. Bone, cartilage, muscle and ligament all have a part to play, and any of them can be the source of pain.
Who gets it
Hip pain turns up at every age, from problems present at birth and during growth, to cartilage wearing away with the years. It can follow an injury or arrive without one.
A thorough biomechanical assessment is essential, because the hip is a great referrer: structures damaged in the hip often send pain elsewhere, and pain felt in the hip is often coming from somewhere else entirely.
How physiotherapy helps
Your physio starts by explaining what is causing the pain and what the right treatment is for that structure. Very often a stability program for the hip, pelvis and core is part of the rehabilitation, and our programs address the hip together with the joints around it so recovery is complete rather than partial.
Working through that program matters: it is what returns full function and stops the injury coming back. If imaging or a referral is needed, we point you in the right direction.
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